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DC Adventure Ho!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

At the start of 2009, I wrote about my DC wishlist, all the restaurants I want to try in the city. In six months, I've knocked exactly six measly places off said list. To be fair, if I'd checked out all of these places in six months, I'd be subsisting solely on Easy Mac & cans of beans. This week, though, as I read through the newly discovered DC Concierge blog, I'm reminded just how many things I want to do & see in the District that I've not yet gotten around to because I am either A) too tired/lazy, B) too broke or C) unable to convince others to join in the fun.

So I've been compiling a mental list & have come up with the following:

Sit under the stars at the Rock Creek Park planetarium, though I will probably cry because sometimes stars do that to me (& now that I've admitted that, no one will ever agree to join me on this one!)

Go inside the Washington Monument, which I haven't done since I was a kid, though this requires the dreaded early-morning wake-up

Shop at Eastern Market, where I have shamefully never been & which also requires an early-morning wake-up

Get inspired at a Busboys & Poets open mic night, though it will probably inspire me to attempt to be artsy, which is not usually a successful endeavor

Go on an embassy tour, despite reports that they're a tourism frenzy

Seriously, it's time to start being a little more adventurous. No more Big Hunt & Paragon Thai. Now accepting suggestions for additional activities to add to the list - & friends with whom to do any & all of them! I promise to stop being tired/lazy, though I can't make any promises to stop being broke.

15 comments:

AWESOME and inspiring list, much better than restauranting. Not sure about the Rock Creek part though... So many cool things to do in D.C., there've gotta be some takers to join u! (p.s. you'll love verification -- it's "emoty")

If you need a date for any of these, let me know. Jazz in the Sculpture Garden is a lot of fun, Eastern Market is cool though I've not been since the fire, and the tidal basin is actually a lot of fun. Gah, now I want to go play in DC.

You really don't have to get up early to go to Eastern market. And I have two additions for your list: go to the Black Cat (way more of a hipster haven than the Rock & Roll Hotel), and go to a FREE concert at Fort Reno this summer.

I love your list... super cool, and I would do any of them with you, as I'm always looking for things like this to do, but every one is too lazy to do something a little different.

I've been up to the top of the Washington Monument, and you don't need to get up early. For a mere $1.50, you can get tickets on the National Park Service's website! No waiting in line at the crack of dawn with 8th graders!

Great list and thanks for the blog and Twitter love!! Add the Hirshhorn AfterHours to your list, if you haven't been already. Our amazing contemporary art museum stays open late with bands/djs and cash bar. Next one is July 24th. Be there!!! xoxo